On the first day of the 2024 free agent signing day, the league has made more than 15 trade signings, and many of them have operations that affect the league's landscape, such as Paul signing to the Spurs, George joining the 76ers with a maximum salary, etc.
Among these operating teams, the Clippers are a relatively large change, they let go of the second leader George, renewed the contract of Harden, the Onion Mavericks snatched the forward defensive titan Jones, and what is more surprising is that they signed the former Rockets player Porter Jr. who played overseas with a two-year contract, basically reorganizing the core lineup, although missing a core second leader, but the team's signing is more practical.
George was originally the second leader of the Clippers, but he and Leonard's two-forward combination has always fallen under injury, before the playoffs this season, Leonard suffered another injury, originally thought that George, as the team's second leader, could play a leading role, but who would have thought that she was disappointed again, but not Harden, who only came for a season, performed well. George is 34 years old, although the data is an All-Star level, but he has never been able to prove that he has the ability to lead the team, and at the end of this season, he refused to execute the last year of his contract, wanting a 4-year $231 million maximum salary contract, but was decisively rejected by the Clippers, clearly telling him that it could only be 3 years at most, and the total salary could not exceed Leonard, which made him very dissatisfied.
Although George himself did not perform well, because he was not satisfied with the contract extension with the Clippers without negotiation, he repeatedly made some inappropriate remarks in public, which made the team finally decide to let him go, although he got a big contract of 4 years and 212 million from the 76ers, but this also caused huge controversy.
Due to the disagreement between George and Harden, once the team abandons him, Harden's signing is logical, and at the same time as letting George go, the team and Harden reached a two-year contract of $70 million, with a player option for the second year, which is also close to the outside world's speculation of 3 years of 1-120 million US dollars, but the annual salary is shorter.
In fact, in the current Clippers, George and Wei Shao are more compatible, and the combination of Harden and Leonard is more worth looking forward to, of course, provided that Leonard can stay healthy. I believe that after George leaves, Harden can mainly control the ball, and there is less solo and unreasonable shots like George.
After giving up George, the Clippers made two signings in addition to renewing Harden's contract, the difference is that they did not prefer star players in recruitment, but mainly used the suitable.
First of all, the Clippers signed Jones, a Mavericks forward defender, for 3 years and $30 million, and because of his excellent defense, the first round of the playoffs made George play very hard, and now, George is gone, and Jones, who has better defense and does not possess the ball, is here.
Jones was undrafted in 2016 and played for five teams in eight seasons in his career, which is also considered a homeless man, but the season when he joined the Mavericks with a base salary made him completely worthy. In the 2023-24 season, he averaged 8.6 points, 3.3 rebounds, 1 assist, 0.9 steals and 0.7 blocks per game in the regular season, and 9.1 points, 3.5 rebounds, 1.2 assists, 0.8 steals and 0.5 blocks in the playoffs.
In addition to renewing Harden and signing Jones, the Clippers also signed Porter Jr., who played overseas, Porter Jr. was still a Rockets player in the 2022-23 season, but was traded to the Thunder by the team due to domestic violence, and then waived, however, Porter averaged 19.6 points, 5.3 rebounds, 5.7 assists and 1.4 steals per game in the 2022-23 season, he has a strong scoring ability, but the team forcibly put him in a point guard position that he is not good at, otherwise his scoring may be even better.
For Porter, the Clippers gave him the most precious opportunity, although there is only a 2-year contract, but the second year is a player option, and there is a 15% trade margin, which is considered enough respect for him and playing next to a passing master like Harden, he will be more like a fish in water, as long as he can control his temper, I believe that it is not impossible to use this short contract to regain a big contract, and even, Porter may be more suitable for the Clippers than Wei Shao, and now Porter definitely does not have a high spirit, He just wants to play well and stay in the NBA.
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